Have a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgCyMv1xYU
Google Voice is now available in many countries all around the world.
This will change the use of telephony.
If its google, its grimy.
I will wait for a similar service thats not so eager to forward my private information to the power elite.
Regards...
Harti,
telephony and email are (SHOULD BE) dead. Open-Source secure IM with voice is what everybody should be using. In particular, Jabber (XMPP) using ZRTP for voice encryption and OTR for chat encryption.
The open-source, cross-platform program called JITSI is a very exciting program (www.jitsi.org/). It has instant messaging, voice and video, peer to peer.
Register for a free Jabber account at
http://www.jitsi.org/index.php/Register/Register
Another free Jabber account can be registered at
https://www.talkr.im/signup
I can recommend the above two Jabber servers, they work quite well. They also integrate Jingle Relay nodes for NAT traversal.
For those who have to get through a company firewall, the free Jabber server at jabber80.com may help. They use the http port 80 which is the port browsers use. Pre-registration is not necessary, the Jabber client can auto-register.
Microsoft has bought Skype and patented spy techniques for Skype, so it is now a good time to adopt open-source and especially Jabber and leave Skype.
Regards, Earl
Quote from: hartiberlin on August 03, 2011, 08:27:29 PM
Have a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgCyMv1xYU
Google Voice is now available in many countries all around the world.
This will change the use of telephony.
Centralized anything is bad whether Google voice or Skype or energy. Decentralized is the way to go. An interesting concept, which is still future music, but deserves attention is that everyone use a cell telephone that also logs into a mesh network. A mesh network itself is a cool concept. See GNU Free Call GUI at
http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_Free_Call_GUI
for more info about this mesh network global network, which is now being designed by idealists and freedom lovers.
Google voice is for people who want all their call info sent to Big Brother.
Regards, Earl